but excessive allostatic load suppresses immunity. An elegant example of this comes from work done in McEwen's lab, where rats were exposed to a chemical antigen. When exposed to moderate stress ...

Rabin says that over time stress can contribute to what scientists call 'allostatic load' – this strains your body's ability to regulate itself and return to a state of balance, known as ...

Conclusions: The findings support suggestions that psychological measures have utility in predicting athletic injury, although the relatively modest explained variance highlights the need to also ...

Plowright and her colleagues are developing a measure of this stress called allostatic load. The third puzzle piece is human actions that bring people into direct contact with infected animals or ...

implying a maladaptive allostatic load in the adaptive mechanisms to chronic stress exposure. This short review will focus on the role of alteration in adrenal or extraglandular cortisol secretion ...